Halle's 3rd Birthday!

Here's the Birthday girl on the morning of her Birthday.....

Caden is obsessed with Birthdays and he really wanted her to open the presents from him right when she woke up.

He gave her some Dora and Blue's Clues books...

And a pony...

He also made her a really nice Birthday card...


We took Caden and Halle to Chuck E Cheeses for lunch. PBS does a nice job of advertising for them, all I here is "When can we go to Chuck E Cheeses?" We got some really good deals on City Deals so we decided to go.

Halle loves pizza...



We got a lot of tokens because we thought they would be really excited to ride the rides, but all they wanted to do was play on the playground. We could've done that at McDonald's.

Halle wasn't a big fan of this ride...

They were very excited to get their picture taken with the Chuck E Cheese statue, but as we got closer to it, they were both kind of scared. (especially when it started to sing and dance)

Some more rides...




Later that night we had a party. Here's Halle the fairy princess...


Opening some presents...

Here's Halle with all the cool things she got...



I had really high hopes for Halle's fairy princess cake, but it didn't really turn out the way I wanted it to. The cake is supposed to be her dress, but it just turned into a big mess. I tried.

Blowing out the candles...


Since we are cheap and don't have cable, everyone had to watch the Jazz game on Lucas' phone.

My friend Devon was nice enough to make the decorations for Halle's party. They turned out so cute! Thank you Devon! She has her own etsy shop that she sales decorations. If anyone wants her information just let me know!






Halle is such a fun little girl! I'm so happy that I get to be her mom!

About Halle:

Favorite food-Mac and Cheese and chocolate milk
Favorite TV shows- Dora, Kai Lan, Curious George
Favorite Book- PB Bear
Favorite thing to do- Go to the Library and play with Caden

We love you Halle! Happy Birthday!!

Halloween Festivities

We did lots of fun things for Halloween this year. Sorry it's taken me a while to blog about it.

We carved a pumpkin. We bought 4 pumpkins, but I could only handle carving 1. It's such a big mess! It was still fun.



Halle didn't help much, but she's still cute...

Caden drew the face on it and Lucas carved it. Caden was very proud of his creation.


We got to go to the Hendrickson Halloween Party. Here's Darth Vader and Strawberry Shortcake. My mom made the Strawberry Shortcake costume like 30 years ago. My sisters and I all wore it. I was very excited that Halle wanted to wear it too!

We played a lot of fun games...


The donut game...
I helped Halle cheat...


Logan and Ella donated their bodies for the mummy game this year...


We decorated some sugar cookies...

Halle enjoyed putting her hands in the frosting more than decorating...

I love Neve's smile in this picture...

Caden chowing down...

Here's Adam's costume...

Heidi and Eric were Ken and Barbie from Toy Story 3. Very cute costumes!

Darth Vader and the Dragon ready to go trick or treating...(We thought the dragon costume would be a warmer choice for Halle)

Lucas made some yummy homemade bread for us on Halloween...

It was a very fun holiday this year!

What we're reading...

We started reading chapter books with Caden and Halle. I was kind of hesitant at first, but they have really enjoyed it! We finished our first book, The BFG.
Here are our favorite parts:

Lucas-Wizpoppers
Liz-Snozcumbers
Caden-When the giants played ball with the BFG
Halle-Little Sophie


We started our 2nd book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.


Does anyone have any other favorite books that we should read? We're open to suggestions!

Norma reminded me that Lucas was a pantless cowboy when he was young too...

Like father, Like daughter

(Yes, I know there is a pause symbol on this picture. I couldn't find the actual picture so I took a picture of the one on our wedding dvd.)

This is our life...

The last couple of weeks I have tried and tried to potty train Halle. She's almost 3 so it's about time that she learned that. I potty trained Caden in 3 days, but Halle has definitely been a struggle. We have our good days and we have our bad days. Luckily the past couple of days have been good. I'm hopeful it will eventually stick with her. She finally completed her first potty chart. She got to pick a prize at the dollar store and she was very excited. She picked the princess wand which she broke in 10 minutes. Thankfully Grandma Eyre was able to fix it.


Caden felt left out so we decided to make a chart for him. Not a potty chart, but an "I can wipe my own bum" chart. I know that's way too much information, but it's been a struggle for him and this has seemed to help. He picked the light saber for his prize. This is his Luke Skywalker pose. He's really been into Star Wars lately.


Onto something else...
Since Caden was so good on our trip to California and he was really brave when we went to Disneyland, we told him we would buy him a fish. Lucas and I thought it would be a really easy pet, but when we went to the pet store we had no idea all the stuff you had to buy for them. We wanted the fish to last longer than 3 days, so we decided to splurge. We are happy to report that he's been alive for longer than 3 weeks! We'll see how long I can keep him alive.

Bob the fish...

And for your viewing pleasure...Halle the pantless cowgirl...